Hinge



J. KANSTER.

HINGE.

APPLICATION FILE-D NOV. 21. 19-11.

Patented July 29, 1919.

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f QENEWQEK, ,r nsE'Y, Assrqiron. or QfiE THIRD .TD mno xms J. WALSH ANnoNE-rmmmo FRANK WALSH, BOTH- OFNEWARK, NEW, JERSEY.

' (HINGE,

To all whom it mayc'o'm'cem 136 itknown that- I,- J A0013 lemme; a-citizen "of the United States', and a "resident of Newark, county o'fE'sseX, and State fo'f New Jersey, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements 'in =Hing'es,-' or which i the following is'aspecification.

My 4 invention relates i "to hinges. While the hinge Of the {presentinvention is mo're particularly designed for 'hin-gedly-securing awa'shtub cover onstmeteu in hfifiihner disclosed 1n my former Patent No.

1,223,588, granted to me on April--24, 1 917, for washtub c0vers,"t'0afbac'k board, hinges l in accordance-with the present inventien are ofgeneral application and maybe made use of wherever a strong, substantial"hinge-is desired.

The obj ect' of the present invention is the improvement of hinges in anumberbf" important particulars, as will be 5 hereafter In theaccompanying 'drawing formin part of this specification, -a rid whereinthe same reference numera1sareuniformly used to designate the *samepartsi threughout, 'Fi-gur'el isa plan*v-iewshowihgmy proved hinge -inuse fer connecting awashtub cover to abaekboard; Fig, 2 is Fig. *1. Fig;3 is a plan view of the hinge member here shown as connected to thewashtub cover; the same being shown tu'rned through an anglecorrespondin to the an le'wwhich such member is "turned in-Fig. =2.Fig.4is a l front "view 6f the hinge 1 5 member here shown connected to"the back board, and Fig. "'5 "is -=a detail view' sho'wing modifie'dforms of openings inone ofthe tangs o'f-the hinge-member=shown in Fig.4e. r 111 thedrawing rzference n'umeral -1-0 is applied to designate?the "back "board which may" be secured" tot-he: rearsideof a washtubo'rfis'eriesof washtubspladed side by side, and 11 designates A aiwashtub cover such as disclosed in my former'patent 'a b'ove re ferredto, 12 is the hinge member which in-the form show n -issecured to theback board 10, and 13 the hinge member secured to the tub cover" 11.These *members 12 and V di piicatiu'ii mdwb'vhber 27/1917.- "seriariwo.204,140.-

' -13 areiform'e'd from sheetmetal, as steel and so forth, preferably"by stamping operation or operations, and in the form shown the member'le "is provided *with a central pintle *-'socket 1 1, "and the member 13with a pair of pintle-s0ekets 15, 15,- one on each side *"thereof,between which the" p'intle "socket 14 E "received aiidthe hiDgedconnection" in: the

femn' shown-is' obtainedby means of mpi'nfle I 16 which is passedthrough the alined 1 ope-n- :ing's in"tl-1e s0ckets 14 and 15,-"15."Pintles of-"v arious {sorts may be used and they may "be retained in-place in the sockets iprovided "therefor by "any suitable means. Iprefer to make the pintle 16 of substantially straight=eylindriea1 formas by cutting it off "from wire or ro'd, and-when a'pi11tle ofsuch'for-m is 'usedit preferably has a tightht in the pintle' -socket l4 anda slightly loose fit in the piiitle s0'c'kets15,orvice versa, so that'the tub" cover or other hinged-"device can be turned readily and "atthe same time 1 the pintle 'will *remain in place after insertionexeept'wvhen fercibly removed-as driving "itout by m'eairs 6f ap-[inchorot-her tool. Themember 12 is provided with sharpened tangs 17 and 18whiclraredriven' into the 'objeet tOWVlIiClYthe member "12 is" to be fastened, *herethe back board of awa'shtu-b eever. The tangs I7 and '18 areintegral with the member "-12 and in the form shown the tang 17, nearestthe pintle socket 14, is formed by stamping out the 'meta1of the memberQ2, leaving anwpmiing 19 which "may-be e-merged somewhat be'ye'nd theextent-of metal bent over to form thetang 17 toprovideanopening 1915fpleasing propertions iil'fd appearance, and the 1 tan-g 18 is'fOrmed bybending over that end ofthe member remote from the pintle'socket' 14,both the tan-gs 17 and 18- being preferably sharpened to a point so thatthey may readily-*be driven into" the board or other object to 's'whiehthe meniberlQ is tobe secured. The tang-17km provided with-a h01e 20 forthe-=reception of a fastening means, as a nail 21, whieh is shown "-asdriven through the edge (if the back board 10 and through thewaning-:20, and the member 18} is also Z provided I with an opefii ng 22which ma have the 5 form ere circular *hele" or -be-of ether -forms-=as, F fer example, a= slot- 22 may be provided whi'ehi is preferably"eloii'g'ate'd in a direction parallel to the upper surface "ofthemember '12, Gr if "desired anu'mber "of p fi t n If Letters Patent iP-a tented au1y.29,;1919. I

openings 22 of circular or other 0 111 may be resorted to. Where thenail 21 is driven without special guiding apparatus,"the use of slotsorof a plurality of holes in the tang" 18 is preferable as affordingbetter opportunity for the point of the nail 21 to enter the same, butwhere the nail 21 is driven with" the'use of a templet or accurate guiding means of any sort, the singlehole 22 is ample. The nail 21 extendingthrough the openings and 22 is substantially parallel tothe outersurface of the member 12, as

will be apparent.

The member 13, here shown as secured to the tub cover 11, comprises atop plate 23 the opening 24 in thetop platemember 23,

preferably parallel to the web 25. curing the member 13 to the tub cover11 an opening28 is preferably formed inthe metal 29 of the tub coveratthe rear edge thereof, throughwhich the tang 26 is driven into thewooden frame 30 of the tub cover, and a which opening. 27 may be ofcircular form -.or may beof slot form, and if the slot form isresortedjtoit has its longest dimension In sefastening member, as a nail31, is passed, as

by driving, through thealined openings 2 1 and 28, and if a nail is usedit is preferably of such length as to clench, as shown at 32,

on being driven home, against the metal plate 33 on the bottom ofthecover frame 30. Thenail 31, when in place, is substantially at rightangles to the top plate 23 of the hingemember 13, and the two nails 21and 31 are substantially at right angles to one another in the normalclosed position of the hinged members. The top plate 23 may also beformed as a tang and be driven into the wood, and. various othermodifications may bemade.

Itwill be seen that numerous advantages are secured witha hingeconstructed in accordance with my invention. The hinges may be madefromsheet metalby a simple stamping operation or operations, the materialused is inexpensive and where material such as steel is used, whichmight rust on continued exposure to dampness, as in the case of use as atub cover, it may be readily protected by being given a suitablecoating, as by being dipped in a galvanizing bath of the like, theymaybe securely and strongly fastened to the members to which theyare tobe attached, as the tub cover and back board, by simple drivingoperations, entirely dispensing with the use of screws which areexpensive, and by being provided with the alined openings into whichnails or other fastening members are driven, they are strongly andsecurely held resort to numerous modifications I andcannot'work loose,the exposed portions thereof present a novel and pleasing appearance anda great saving-and economy of time'is' secured by the mode of fasteningthe improved hinge in place, it being possible, for example, for aworkman to secure and assemble several times as many of the hinges-inaccordance with thepresent in 3 81113 1011 as can be done in the sametime vention-only, and thatfI am not to be confined to suchspecificembodiment, but may and changes within the scope-of my claimswithoutdepartingfrom my invention or sacri- .ficing the advantagesthere0f.

.Iolaim: v

1. A struck up sheet metal hinge, a memberwhereof is provided with aplurality of sharpened tangs located at a substantial distance apart,and said tangs being .pro-

.vided with substantially alined openings.

2. A struck up sheet metal hinge, one of the members whereof hassharpened tangs provided with substantially alined openings, and theother member whereof is proa vided with a sharpened tangand asurfaceplate, said 'tangand surfaceplatehaving substantial alined openings.

3. A struck up sheet metal hinge, one of p;-

the members whereof comprises asurface plate and a pintle socket and twoseparate integral tangs extending at right angles to the surface plate,one of said tangs being adjacent to the pintle socket and struck out ofthe material-of the face. plate and leaving an openingthere'in, and theother being 'at the end of the face plate remote from the pintle socket,said tangs having I substantially alined openings therein adapted toreceive a nail driven substantially .parallel to the face plate, and theother member whereof comprisesa surfaceplate, a web and a tang, the tangextending substantially parallel to the surface plate, andsaid surfaceplate I and tang being provided with substantially alined openingstherein to receive a nail driven substantially at right angles to thesurface plate, and. said-member having a pair of pintle sockets betweenwhich the pintlesocket on the other member of the hinge is adapted to bereceived, and a pintle passing through the alined pintle sockets.

Intestimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereto set my hand this23rd day of November, 1917. V

JAcoB KANSTER.

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